everything to do with panic buying. most paper goods that are used here in the u.s. are produced here in the u.s, therefore no need to import them. however exports could soon become a problem for these companies, meaning there could actually be a glut. in washington, i'm karin caifa. >> all right. thank you for joining us. world news tonight with david muir starts right now. and i'll see you back here at four. tonight, breaking news involving donald trump. what jack smith just revealed, and trump's response just in. also tonight, vice president harris in the storm zone. also, the bank of america accounts that suddenly showed customers they had a zero balance in their accounts. and the breaking news tonight involving the matthew perry case. first tonight, president biden touring the devastation caused by hurricane helene and

the storm that followed. flying over the disaster area in north carolina. the death toll climbing tonight. now at least 182 lives lost. hundreds still unaccounted for. tonight, 34 days now before the election. the new evidence involving donald trump. inside the private dining room off the oval office as the january 6th riot unfolded. what was revealed today by prosecutor jack smith? and what the trump campaign is saying tonight. vice president kamala harris meantime on the ground in hard-hit georgia tonight, thanking first responders. and the moment last night during the debate between j.d. vance and tim walz that the harris campaign has immediately turned into a new campaign ad. and donald trump tonight praising his running mate, j.d. vance, for his performance. tonight, after iran's ballistic missile attack on israel, prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowing to retaliate. tonight here, the new video showing that wave of iranian missiles. and the new footage appearing to

show helicopters trying to get wounded soldiers out of southern lebanon. back here in the u.s. tonight, the death of "friends" star matthew per rip. what's been revealed. in new york city tonight, indicted mayor eric adams. did he interfere with witnesses? the showdown in court today. tonight, bank of america suffering a nationwide computer outage. many customers unable to withdraw cash from atms. others logging into their accounts, suddenly showing their balance was zero. what the bank is saying tonight. this evening, the world war ii bomb exploding at an airport. eight decades after the war. authorities trying to figure out what set it off. pink floyd cashing in tonight. how much they're getting for their music. and the powerful new image of princess catherine tonight. kate's hug, and the message for millions behind it.

good evening and it's great to have you with us here tonight. we have breaking news involved donald trump tonight. what jack mythsmith revealed la today. and what trump is now saying tonight. but we begin tonight with the spiraling emergency after hurricane helene. the mounting death toll. at least 182 lives lost. hundreds still unaccounted for. tonight, president biden touring the devastation. the president sending 1,000 active duty troops to the region to help, and tonight, the once vibrant city of asheville, north carolina, here is in shambles. buildings and roads severely damaged by powerful flood waters. we have new video tonight of the raging river nearby, picking up a home right there, slamming it into a pile of debris. dash cam video showing the moment a couple narrowly missed being taken by this landslide. fast-rising waters taking people by surprise. look at this. stunned neighbors, huddled inside a flooded home. the images from hendersonville, north carolina. president biden taking an aerial

tourl of the hardest hit areas with the mayor of tashville, with north carolina's governor, roy cooper. the president calling what he say today heartbreaking. vice president harris in the storm zone in georgia tonight, with a message for families hard-hit, and thanking first responders there. abc's morgan norwood leading us off from north carolina. >> reporter: tonight, five days after helene's terrifying floods, with the scope of the devastation becoming more clear -- -- president biden seeing the destruction first-hand today, flying over the hardest hit areas to avoid disruptions, after announcing he's deploying a thousand active duty troops to the storm zone. >> i'm here to say, the united states, the nation, has your back. the nation has your back. we're not leaving until you're back on your feet completely. >> reporter: the soldiers will deploy to the hardest hit areas, joining more than 6,000 national guard troops from 12 states already there. five days since helene hit, and much of the area still looks like this. shipping containers tossed

around, bridges blocked by debris, roads looking more like ravines, and communities still cut off. >> we have no way out. >> reporter: in fairview, north carolina, the bridge leading to this neighborhood gone. >> i ran down two lines, because one, you can't get much grip. >> reporter: phillip morgan showing us the makeshift system of ropes he's been using to rappel in and out. so, this is how he says he's able to, multiple times a day, bring up supplies for his family, many of them who can't get up and down this hill. he's the one that's going up and down every single day trying to make sure they get the critical supplies, life-saving supplies, even for his brother. we climb up through downed trees. >> it's just a little bit more up this way. >> reporter: inside, philip's sister-in-law tells us a generator keeps her husband's ventilator going. how much longer without power, without connectivity, without a bridge, do you think that you'll be able to keep going with all of this? >> really not much longer. it's getting rough. and we're on -- i don't even know anymore. >> reporter: and david, president biden plans to visit

other hard-hit states soon. vice president kamala harris down in augusta, georgia, touring the storm damage there. she also has plans to come here to north carolina in the coming days. david? >> david: morgan, that was extraordinary, showing us the family using ropes to bring supplies to their loved ones. morgan, thank you again tonight. the other major headline this evening, 34 days now until the election. new evidence tonight involving donald trump from special counsel jack smith. the evidence involves what smith says donald trump did inside the private dining room off the oval office as the january 6th riot was unfolding. tonight, donald trump's response, and here's our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas now. >> reporter: tonight, just 34 days before the election, special counsel jack smith presenting new evidence of donald trump's alleged criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 vote and cling to power. in the sweeping 165-page filing, smith arguing trump's deeds were not the official acts of a

president, protected by the recent supreme court ruling on immunity, but the desperate efforts of a losing candidate. the brief presents the fullest picture yet of smith's case that trump knew he lost, but lied to the american people anyway. prosecutors claim they spoke to one white house staffer who said he overheard trump telling family members, "it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. you still have to fight like hell." and then on january 6th, trump told his supporters to do just that. >> we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> reporter: smith writing that trump is directly responsible for "the tinderbox that he purposely ignited on january 6th." smith goes on to say, "the defendant also knew that he had only one last hope to prevent biden's certification as president, the large and angry crowd standing in front of him." the special counsel pointing to a tweet trump sent from his private dining room off the oval office as the riot was unfolding at the capitol. quote, trump was alone in his dining room when he issued a tweet attacking pence and fueling the ongoing riot.

"mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution." smith noting that since trump was alone when he sent the tweet, and sent it from his personal twitter account, it would not be considered an official presidential act. shortly after trump posted the tweet, vice president pence was whisked to a secure location by the secret service. according to the special counsel's filing, trump was informed by a white house staffer, who hoped "the department would take action to ensure pence's safety." instead, trump allegedly looked at him and said only "so what?" tonight, trump lashing out, saying releasing the brief just over a month before the election amounts to election interference. david? >> david: pierre, thank you. meantime, on the campaign trail, vice president kamala harris in the battle the ground of georgia tonight. she's there tonight to visit the storm zone, visiting the emergency operations center in augusta, georgia, there with the red cross, distributing food. her visit comes after last night's vice presidential

debate, and the moment last night between tim walz and j.d. vance that the harris campaign has immediately turned into a new campaign ad. and donald trump tonight praising j.d. vance on his performance. mary bruce from georgia. >> reporter: in storm-ravaged georgia tonight, kamala harris comforting victims of hurricane helene, serving meals and handing out water to community members in need. >> the coordination that we have dedicated ourselves to will be long-lasting, to get families, to get residents, to get neighborhoods back up and running. >> reporter: harris spent the day touring the state, meeting with local officials on the ground and thanking first responders. >> i'm here to thank you. i know these are long days for you. >> reporter: with harris in georgia, her running mate minnesota governor tim walz hitting the crucial battleground of pennsylvania, fresh off of the debate stage. >> anybody watch the debate last night? >> reporter: for walz, it was a sometimes shaky performance, but the campaign seizing on this moment, walz denouncing

donald trump's actions on january 6th, and calling out his running mate, ohio senator j.d. vance, for refusing to admit trump lost the 2020 election. >> this was a threat to our democracy in a way that we had not seen, and it manifested itself because of donald trump's inability to say -- he is still saying he didn't lose the election. i would just ask that -- did he lose the 2020 election? >> tim, i'm focused on the future. did kamala harris censor americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 covid situation? >> that is -- that is a damning nonanswer. >> reporter: the harris campaign eager to highlight the moment, immediately cutting it into a new ad. >> america, i think you've got a really clear choice of who's going to honor that democracy and who's going to honor donald trump. >> reporter: but vance had an otherwise strong performance. and today in michigan, a victory lap. >> now we of course had a debate last night, a vice presidential debate, i thought it went pretty well. >> reporter: vance working to

soften trump on some critical issues, like abortion, as the former president has bragged about appointing three of the justices who overturned roe versus wade. >> my party, we've got to do so much better of a job and earning the american people's trust back on this issue, where they frankly just don't trust us. and i think that's one of the things that donald trump and i are endeavoring to do. i want us as a republican party, to be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word. >> reporter: tonight, trump is praising vance's performance. kamala harris back out on the trail, she'll be in wisconsin and michigan. trump will also be in michigan and north carolina later this week. and tonight, cbs news says that both harris and trump agreed to sit down with "60 minutes" for their traditional pre-election interview, but then trump then backed out. the trump team saying nothing was finalized, and complaining that cbs insisted on doing live fact-checking. david? >> david: mary bruce tonight, thank you. overseas tonight, after iran's ballistic missile attack on israel, israeli prime

minister benjamin netanyahu vowing to retaliate, amid new images here showing that wave of iranian missiles headed for israel. matt gutman from the region again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a rattled israel weighing its response to iran's unprecedented missile attack, but promising a fast and painful retaliation. new video from the cockpit of a plane showing a wave of those iranian missiles headed for israel, arching up into the sky over iran. >> i've never seen anything like this. i need to get some cover. >> reporter: iran pouring about 200 ballistic missiles into israel, they say in response to recent israeli assassinations of the leaders of hezbollah and hamas. most of the missiles intercepted. the u.s. releasing these videos showing a navy destroyer launching interceptors, taking out multiple missiles. but some missiles pierced israel's air defenses. video shot by local residents showing this barrage blasting a military base in

southern israel, missiles hitting three israeli bases and several cities. we saw some of the damage first-hand today. want to give you a sense of the power of these missiles. the one that obliterated the facade of this building actually landed about 100 feet into the ocean, but the blast wave was so powerful, it did this and sprayed sea water three stories high. israel bombing beirut partly in an effort to show it was unaffected by that missile strike. thousands of americans desperate to get out of the city. the state department revealing 7,000 people contacted the u.s. embassy in beirut, many looking to leave. the first government charter flight departing today, carrying more than 100 americans and their families. >> we do expect to organize additional flights out of bay route. >> reporter: israeli ground forces pressing deeper into lebanon. and tonight, dramatic new video circulating online, appearing to show idf helicopters air lifting soldiers out of southern lebanon. israel saying at least eight soldiers were killed, 20 more

wounded. the iran-backed militia hezbollah saying it was a massive ied blast. david, that missile strike doing more damage than many expected. and while president biden today called for a proportional response, israeli leaders are signaling a disproportional response, one that would defer iran from doing this again. the timing remains unclear, but it's likely in the coming days, david. >> david: matt, thank you again tonight. back to news in the u.s. tonight, and the death of matthew perry. here's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: tonight, one of two doctors charged in the death of actor matthew perry pleading guilty to illegally distributing ketamine, the drug that ultimately killed the "friends" star. >> reporter: nearly a year after perry was found dead from a ket stay ketamine the hot tub of his home, dr. mark chavez today admitting to

his role, telling the judge he wrote fraudulent prescriptions and transferred 22 vials of ketamine to be given to perry. >> he's incredibly remorseful about what happened, not just because it happened to matthew perry, but because it happened to a patient. he is trying to do everything in his power to right the wrong that happened here. >> reporter: prosecutors now building their case against dr. salvador plasencia and jasveen sangha, an accused drug dealer known as the "ketamine queen." plasencia allegedly bought the drugd from dr. chavez. in one text about how much to charge perry, plascencia wrote, "i wonder how much this moron will pay." >> in the end, these defendants were more interested in profiting off mr. perry than caring for his well-being. >> reporter: chavez is the third person to plead guilty, including perry's assistant, who has admitted to injecting him with that fatal dose of ketamine. and david, chavez faces up to ten years in prison. he has surrendered his medical license. david? >> david: kayna whitworth, thank you. in new york city tonight,

mayor eric adams back in federal court. prosecutors suggesting that the mayor interfered with a witness. here's aaron katersky. >> reporter: new york mayor eric adams bounded into court today, where he learned the federal bribery case against him may widen. prosecutors said additional charges against adams are possible and new defendants are likely, telling the judge, "we're moving quickly." one possible new charge, witness tampering, after prosecutors said they have evidence adams told a witness to lie. prosecutors said the witness was given "a clear message from the defendant they should not tell the truth to the fbi." prosecutors calling it a "significant instance of witness interference." >> resign now! resign now! >> reporter: adams is resisting calls to resign. he has pleaded not guilty to bribery and fraud charges accusing him of accepting more than $100,000 worth of luxury travel and bogus campaign contributions in exchange for favors. on the eve of today's court appearance, the mayor held a rally on the steps of city hall. >> you hear people that constantly say, "well maybe he

should step down." no. >> no, no! >> i say -- i'm going to step up. >> reporter: the mayor asked the judge to hold a trial by march. he says he fully intended to be on the ballot for re-election a year from now, david. >> david: aaron katersky in new york tonight. thank you, aaron. when we come back, bank of america and a nationwide outage. some customers accounts suddenly showing a zero balance. also, the world war ii bomb exploding in an airport, eight decades after the war. how did this happen? pink floyd in the news tonight. and the new and

tonight, bank of america is investigating a nationwide outage affecting thousands of customers. the problem preventing many customers from withdrawing cash from atms. some customers actually finding their account balance was suddenly zero. no word on what caused the outage. when we come back, the world war ii bomb that just exploded at an airport, how did this happen all these years later?

to the index of other news. a world war ii bomb dropped by the u.s. and buried for eight decades exploded this morning at an airport in southwest japan. 80 years after the war. the 500-pound bomb causing a crater on the taxi way. 23 feet wide, 3 feet deep. more than 80 flights canceled. authorities say they still don't know what triggered the

explosion. tonight, pink floyd cashing in on its music catalog. ♪ ♪ hey teacher ♪ ♪ leave them kids alone ♪ >> david: the band selling its music rights to sony for $400 million, including am bull as "the wall." when we come back, t

finally tonight here, princess catherine and the hug. tonight, the poignant new image marking a new chapter for catherine, princess of wales. in windsor castle, hugging a 16-year-old girl battling cancer. >> you lead the way. >> david: you'll remember the video message from princess kate

just three weeks ago, revealing she had completed chemotherapy for cancer, after sharing her diagnosis with the world last march. >> i cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemical therapy treatment. life as you know it can change in an instant, and we've had to find a way to navigate the stormy waters. >> david: tonight, princess kate's first royal engagement photographed. 16-year-old liz hatton smiling there with her family. princess kate and her husband, prince william, by their side. prin william had learned of the 16-year-old and her own battle, and her passion for photography. inviting her to photograph an official ceremony at the castle today. then sharing liz's photos on their social media pages. tonight, william and kate writing, "a pleasure to meet with liz at windsor today. a talented young photographer, whose creativity and strength has inspired us both. thank you for sharing your photos, and story with us." tonight, the hug, the milestone, and the new message of hope from

princess kate and 16-year-old liz, that photographer, to all of those battling cancer. princess catherine and the hug for the millions who are fighting cancer, too. i'm david muir. i'll see you right back here tomorrow night. good night.

i'm sure you're feeling it. another day of triple digit temperatures all across the bay area. and that heat wave is not over yet. >> it's even hot on the coast as people try to find some way to keep cool. you got to jump in the ocean for that. >> absolutely. that need to find relief is becoming a rather booming business for air conditioning companies. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. hope you're staying cool. i'm larry beil and i'm kristen z. >> it's not just hot outside as you can tell from our tower cameras. there's also another spare the air day with moderate to poor air